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It was something both Brady Ericson and Juliet Allard had their eye on since they came to Woodstock Academy four years ago.
Both saw the Wall of Honor that exists in the Hyde Building near the Alumni Fieldhouse and both wanted to be a part of it before they left campus as Woodstock Academy graduates.
“I came in my freshman year and saw all the names on the wall dating back to, I think, 1962. Sports have been my life and it has been my goal ever since I saw it to get that award,” Ericson said.
His dream came true Thursday.
So did Allard.
“This is absolutely incredible. Just like Brady said, I’ve been looking at that since freshman year as well, seeing that wall of names and I wanted to be on there,” she said.
Both will be now as they were named the 2025 Woodstock Academy Senior Athletes of the Year in the highlight of Senior Athletic Awards at the Loos Center for the Arts.
Ericson was known as a baseball player and with good reason.
He excelled on the mound for the Centaurs baseball team.
He finished with a 22-2 career record, both losses coming in his freshman year, and had over 300 strikeouts.
He led the team to the Class L state championship a year ago and helped guide them to a second consecutive Eastern Connecticut Conference tournament championship this season.
This spring, he finished with a 6-0 record and 117 strikeouts to go with an 0.35 earned run average.
“The highlight, to be expected, was winning the state championship a year ago,” Ericson said. “It was one of the greatest seasons we ever had. Everybody on the team really bought in. Coming back this year even felt like, even though we didn’t have as much talent, we had more grit, more work ethic and I couldn’t have been more proud of the guys.”
Ericson also played basketball for the Centaurs and averaged 15.2 points per game over the last two seasons, finishing with 952 career points and 531 career rebounds.
Ericson will continue his academic and athletic career at UConn.
Allard was also a multi-sport athlete.
Although probably best known as a track athlete, she did diversify in the fall and played soccer where she scored 14 goals and had eight assists over her four years despite missing much of her senior year due to injury.
Allard also owns or is a part of 14 school records in both indoor and outdoor track and helped lead the team to an Eastern Connecticut Conference regular season title last season and an ECC championship meet victory this year.
“Going All-State with the 4x400-meter relay team last year was absolutely incredible,” Allard said when asked what she will remember most. “It came out of nowhere. We weren’t expecting to run the 4x400 like that so it was an absolutely incredible team effort.”
Like Ericson, Allard will be competing at the Division I level in track for Quinnipiac University beginning this fall.
Other notable awards included baseball coach Connor Elliott being named the 2025 Coach of the Year.
The Centaur Awards went to volleyball standout Sophie Gronski and boys cross-country and track standout performer, Christian Menounos.
The complete list of award winners at the 2025 Senior Athletic Awards at Woodstock Academy included:
2025 Senior Athletes of the Year: Brady Ericson, Juliet Allard
2025 Centaur Awards: Sophie Gronski, Christian Menounos
Comeback Athlete of the Year: Olivia Aleman
Connecticut High School Coaches Association Scholar-Athlete Awards: Christian Menounos, Kira Greene
Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference Scholar-Athletes: Colton Sallum, Abby Converse
Prep Athletic Scholar – Athlete: Alvaro Medrano-Lopez, Jr.
Unified Sports Awards: Phoebe Griffin, Devlin Mansolf
Bertrand Golf Award: Bella Mawson, Luke Thompson
Dale Smith Memorial Scholarship: Bella Mawson
Clifford Spelman Tennis Sportsmanship Award: Tyler Chamberlin
Alfred C.Warren Soccer Sportsmanship Awards: Eli Susi, Freya Robbie
Hobey Baker Memorial Hockey Award: Tim Mozzi
National Federation of States High School Associations Award of Excellence: Abby Converse, Matt Hernandez
Hannah Green Memorial Award: Livia Gerum
Marvin M.Sherman Award: Colton Sallum
Woodstock Academy athletic department Awards: Cam Nason, Macy Rawson, Kyle Grist, Sophia Sarkis, Devlin Mansolf, Madison Bloom
Chris Sandford Prep Athletics Award of Excellence: Filippo Di Giorgi, Kevin Thomson, Enoch Joseph
Evelyn and Arthur Weimann Award: Sam Clark, M.J. Castenada
John Suleski Jr. Memorial Golf Awards: Most Improved senior golfer: Brady O’Brien; Most Valuable senior golfer: Logan Rawson
Centaur Nation Person of the Year: Deb Campbell
2025 Coach of the Year: Connor Elliott
2025 Assistant Coach of the Year: Collin Singleton